Suit filed over end of GAMC, By Warren Wolfe, March 4, 2010, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: “Legal Aid has joined the struggle over General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC), the embattled health insurance program for the poorest Minnesotans, with a lawsuit that seeks to stop Gov. Tim Pawlenty from ending the program April 1. The suit was filed Thursday afternoon, even as legislators from both parties continued negotiations in St. Paul over a Republican plan to keep the program alive, though in a sharply reduced form. Legal Aid filed suit in Ramsey County seeking a one-month extension of GAMC, a move designed to give lawmakers more time to find a legislative solution. It is the second lawsuit challenging Pawlenty’s power to ‘unallot’ state funds. Meanwhile, negotiators were to meet Thursday night at the governor’s office, their third session of the day…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty